Timothy F. Cahill Quotes

I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

With such a huge fan base, Indian football has a good foundation, and my aim is to become an ambassador of the sport and fly the flag on the international stage for the Indian fans.

Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.

I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football.

I can see that the UAE is growing a lot as a football country, and there is plenty of opportunity to keep going and improve.

David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future plans to remould the England set-up. Beckham and players like him need to be integrated into the set-up in the same way that the Germans take on board former players from Beckenbauer to Rummenigge.

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly.

I want to help grow the game in India and encourage young kids to play football.

I think what African football needs is better organization, better structure, and I think, after that, we'll help the players to be more professional when they're coming to play for their national team.

As Europe is more advanced in football administration, I would like to learn more there.

I think the difference with Japan was that they didn't bring in too many foreign players. In my opinion at the ISL it's not too good to have too many foreigners playing. The minimum of five Indian players is too less in my opinion. Since it's the ISL, we have to encourage more Indian football.

I believe in a European League. I would like to see more quality in the game, and fewer games mean more quality.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

In England, I always liked the way Terry Venables worked.

My father has played at Celtic before. He has told me it is really intense, and it is good to grow as a footballer by playing for this club.

The only thing that Celtic doesn't have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn't have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.

The national team can do so much for Italian football, as can even lads who no-one knows or who play in the lower Leagues.

When you're Scottish you're brought up to play anywhere and it's fine to play for one or two games but you need to play in your right position, especially on the back of scoring nine goals for Hull City.

You can never know if there will be a second Cruyff, someone with a great personality who can grow up and make it into the squad of the club they love. But what is certain is that, in the Champions League, there will be big clubs producing these players forever.

My father loved European football; he also loved the Brazilian team. His own dad loved the Brazilian team.

South India, and in particular Hyderabad, holds a special place in my heart because I have a huge fan base here.